U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (top centre), who was seriously wounded in an attempted assassination in Arizona on January 8, 2011, is pictured with the six victims killed in the attack, in this combination photograph of undated images released on January 8 and 9. Pictured are: (Top Row L-R) Nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, Giffords and Federal Judge John Roll. (Bottom Row L-R) Phyliss Schneck, Gabe Zimmerman, Dorothy Morris and Dorwan Stoddard. REUTERS/All images except that of Gabrielle Giffords, Judge Roll, Gabe Zimmerman and Dorwan Stoddard are courtesy of The Arizona Republic.

One of the victims in the tragic Arizona shooting this weekend was the granddaughter of Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Green was a team manager for the Philadelphia Phillies when they won the 1980 World Series.

His granddaughter Christina Taylor-Green, 9, was the youngest victim and one of six people murdered during a shooting at a local Tuscan grocery store. Green, who was recently elected to her elementary student council, attended a town hall meeting where she hoped to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

“She was born back east and Sept. 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her,” her mother Roxanna Green told the paper. “She was all about helping people, and being involved. It’s so tragic. She went to learn today and then someone with so much hatred in their heart took the lives of innocent people.”

Green, one of baseball’s most venerable figures, and his wife were en route to Tucson Sunday to be with their son John, Christina’s father, and his family, leaving their Providenciales Isle home near the Bahamas with a stopover in Miami, where Green told the Daily News that he doesn’t believe he will ever recover from the death of his granddaughter.

“I’ve had a lot of tough things happen to me in my life but this is one I’m never going to get over,” Green told The News. “We’re all hurting pretty bad. My son is devastated.”

It just breaks my heart that a child so clearly full of promise and hope died while doing something positive. This is an unspeakable tragedy and my thoughts and prayers are with all the families.